Cheap Car Insurance for Under 21s
by By Robert Mackey
Early on Tuesday, the nation of Samoa officially defected from right to left, leaving the fraternity of nations that drive their cars of the right side of the street to the (now) growing club of leftists.
The change — which was made for economic reasons, to bring the country in line with its neighbors in New Zealand and Australia and so make it easier to import small, fuel-efficient used cars from those countries — was marked by a two-day national holiday and a three-day ban on alcohol sales.
As an editorial in The Samoa Observer noted:
At 6 a.m. local time, the BBC reports , Samoan Prime Minister Tuila’epa Sailele Lupesoliai Malielegaoi made the switch official with these words: “After this announcement you will all be permitted to move to the other side of the road, to begin this new era in our history.”
It has been four decades since a country switched from driving on one side of the road to the other, and the previous trend had been markedly in the opposite direction. As an article from Time magazine’s archive noted, when — after “a brief but monumental traffic jam” — Sweden switched to driving on the right side of the road in 1967, the move was part of a standardization across continental Europe. That switch was resisted by drivers on the British Isles, and in many former parts of the British empire, including India, Pakistan and parts of Africa, left remains right.
Just last year, however, Reuters reported that an Irish politician, concerned about running head-on into immigrant drivers from Eastern Europe, had proposed that “Ireland should consider giving up driving on the left to reduce accidents by foreigners accustomed to right-side motoring.” That proposal was made in February 2008, before a rapid economic slowdown stopped the flow of European workers to Ireland and made it unlikely that the cash-strapped Irish government would want to take on a massive project that would also have introduced chaos at the now barely perceptible line where Ireland and Northern Ireland meet.
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If you’re looking for an online auto insurance quote for premiums, in the UK, you’ll see that the price indicate a rise by 14% in the 2nd quarter of 2010. The rise in costs was revealed by the latest data gathered by EMB Car Insurance Price Index in cooperation with online portal Confused and it shows how the costs associated with insuring a car in the UK have risen.
In the past premiums increased only by 4.3% and 6.3% in the 4th quarter of 2009 and 1st quarter of 2010 accordingly, but now, however, the amount of £74 was added to the price of an average car insurance, which bring an annual increase of 31% to £142. Now a typical auto insurance is priced at £599 and this increase makes people who search for an online auto insurance quote to think twice before they buy.
The rise in costs automobile insurance, had the greatest impact on drivers who are now in their 40’s and 50’s. The hardest where hit women who included children and other people, except for husbands, on policies. According to the research, the increase in auto premiums was higher in some regions in the UK, like Manchester, Northern Ireland, and Inner London.
Source: TauNews.com (blog)
At www.Pin-Sibenik.com has information if you need to know things about car insurance in Northern Ireland.
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